First, some baseline facts. Ben Roethlisberger is a self-important dickhead, Antonio Brown is a dislikable drama king, and - now that I think about it - you could probably swap those labels and they'd still apply pretty well. The latter undoubtedly looks worse for just up and bouncing on his team mid-week prior to a must-win game with potential playoff implications, but discounting the former's penchant to instigate by way of passive aggressive finger pointing is a fool's errand. AB might be the bad guy this time around, but Big Ben has never been mistaken for some sort of saint, so I'm at least considering him an accomplice to this crime of immaturity. None of that really matters, however, because there is one person and one person alone to be held responsible for allowing the Steelers' season to end with the grand finale of the dumping of gasoline on what was already a roaring dumpster fire of dysfunction...
If you want to give Mike Tomlin credit for doing what he had very little choice but to do then be my guest, but this ain't a pity party for a guy who - of late - has only as good of a head coach as he has been an enabler. The stinkiest of shit has been leaking from the Steelers' organization all damn season, and it's due - in large part - to the fact that their Super Bowl winning supervisor wasn't discipline in strapping diapers on an offense led by infants. Hell, even after Antonio Brown CLEARLY quit on his team, his head coach still didn't have the fortitude to refer to it as such, which is almost too fitting of the "hear no social media, see no social media, speak no social media"-type pass he's given two Pro Bowl-caliber petulant children. For 16 weeks, Antonio Brown has done whatever the hell it is that he's wanted to do and Ben Roethlisberger has said whatever the hell it is that he's wanted to. Therefore, you don't get to claim ignorance by referencing "lack of communication" come Week 17. The toddlers have been had control over the daycare center, so administering one long overdue timeout is like putting a bandaid on the bullet wound as the Steelers' playoff hopes bled out. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, as a All-World wide receiver with a contract unfitting of his me-first, second, and third attitude decided to take a dump on his trade value immediately prior to asking to be traded, but Mike Tomlin helped create this monster by turning a blind eye to its growth.
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